Product reviews for The User's Manual for the Brain Volume II

As a sequel to Volume I, Hall and Bodenhamer's User's Manual for the Brain, Volume II is a Master's level curriculum for NLP Practitioners. It takes a systemic approach to integrating NLP skills, presuppositions, models, processes, and applications within the four meta-domains, Meta States, Meta Modalities, Meta Programs, and the Meta Model, to arrive at the gestalt that is NLP. Moreover, the course content is conveyed in such a way as to install the attitudes of mastery and the “power of wizardry” that combines passion, motivation, and dedication. Readers will get a fresh new look at the presuppositions of NLP for shaping the prerequisite attitudes of NLP mastery.

Those who own several of Hall and Bodenhamer's previous books will enjoy this one because it is the Grand Tour of their thinking and writing over the past decade, covering topics such as “dragon slaying” (banishing negative states), the relationship between Meta Programs and Meta Modalities, time lining, mind lines (with a delightfully astute foray into presuppositional language patterns), Frame Games, Meta Model magic, Hall's Strategy Model, and Hall's recently-developed Matrix Model of the mind.



Through writing that is clear, concise, crisp and engaging, Hall and Bodenhamer have drawn expertly on the work of other major developers of NLP, such as Bandler and Grinder, Cameron-Bandler, James, Woodsmall, Bateson, and their own contributions, to produce a unified field theory and the quintessential self-study course on advanced NLP.